The T-box transcription factor, TBX3, is sufficient to promote melanoma formation and invasion

Molecular Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Peres, Jade ^a   Prince, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Invasion; Melanoma; Migration; TBX3

Indexed keywords

T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TBX3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL INVASION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; MALE; MELANOMA CELL; METASTATIC MELANOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR INVASION;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 84885014992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14764598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-4598-12-117     Document Type: Letter

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